[AR] Re: Building a small payload to LOE launch company (10-year timeline)
- From: Ben Brockert <wikkit@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:57:56 -0700
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Randall Clague <rclague@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If Armadillo never made money, it was never supposed to.
Armadillo was in the black for an extended period and probably still
could be running in that mode. But John has repeatedly stated that he
didn't want Armadillo to be just another aerospace contractor, so they
made the decision to pull back from doing work like Morpheus.
As Masten has demonstrated, there's plenty of work out there for small
innovative companies with VTVL experience and hardware available for
rent. But we got closer to the original goal of suborbital (space)
reusable at Armadillo than we did at Masten, and only got passed years
later by a couple companies who spent roughly one billion dollars
more.
Ben
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